Pith Number

pith:SMFBYZKT

pith:2026:SMFBYZKTP6OHNFPOFWF2CT4MD7

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Can Trustless Agents Be Trusted? An Empirical Study of the ERC-8004 Decentralized AI Agent Ecosystem

Qin Wang, Wei Wei, William Knottenbelt, Xihan Xiong, Zelin Li, Zhipeng Wang

arxiv:2606.26028 v1 · 2026-06-24 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SMFBYZKTP6OHNFPOFWF2CT4MD7}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-25T01:18:46.283685Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

930a1c65537f9c7695ee2d8ba14f8c1fd0dc1b7157cb1f9fdede8ff59aabd70a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26028 · arxiv_version: 2606.26028v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26028 · pith_short_12: SMFBYZKTP6OH · pith_short_16: SMFBYZKTP6OHNFPO · pith_short_8: SMFBYZKT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SMFBYZKTP6OHNFPOFWF2CT4MD7 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 930a1c65537f9c7695ee2d8ba14f8c1fd0dc1b7157cb1f9fdede8ff59aabd70a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1631a9d9865f3ced99a097d0ebaf0b831d438f049b1b0a9d9a18bab229bda5ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T16:57:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4e11a8eddd38ead099d437184e8ae29e0ef0d670a53507c81ed8b5bbe1943da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26028",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}